Over the weekend the promised VS2010 compatible Windows phone Developer Tools CTP (WPDT CTP) has been released. While the update is primarily intended to enable development using the final release of VS2010, there are a few new things too.

Examples …

And there I was yesterday, at the Next Web Conference 2010. Saw amazing demos of the new Windows Live Messenger and Messenger for iPhone by Angus Logan. Amongst the things Angus showed, what impressed me most were HD …

Photosynth just got an update, which allows you to share photosynths on Facebook.
 
Not just your own, any synth you like! You don’t even have to be signed in on the photosynth site to do so. How …

Bing is the major sponsor of “Save the Poles,” an expedition of Explorer Eric Larsen and his team. This expedition is meant to raise awareness of climate change. Eric’s goal is to be the first man to …

Facebook just launched new Community pages. From the Facebook Blog:

Community Pages are a new type of Facebook Page dedicated to a topic or experience that is owned collectively by the community connected to it. Just like official Pages

And the winners of the student Earth Day Photo Contest are chosen from the 12 finalists. More than 200,000 votes were cast!

Grand prize and first prize in the category 18+: Alan Bosse, Gulf Coast Community College, Panama City, …

Windows Live Wave 4 testing will expand to users outside Microsoft shortly. According to Mary Jo (ZDNet) this will be in the coming weeks. From a blog post by Chris Jones, Corporate Vice President of Windows Live:

For several

 
As promised during the launch, it’s here!

Want to know which version you have installed now? You can check that at, and also install the latest from www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight.…

Edit: Voting date has been extended from 4/19 to 4/20 at 12:00 p.m. PT and winners will now be announced on 4/21 at 9:00 a.m. PT.

The 12 finalists in the student Earth Day Photo Contest have been chosen out …

Bing has started to roll out social search to a small subset of users (US) and queries – so you may or may not see it appearing on your search results page. The team plans to make the feature available …